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Originally Posted by redwitch
Be careful not to overwater to compensate for only once a week. All you'll succeed in doing is having a lot of runoff, root rot and fungus on your lawn. Your grass won't die with only one a week watering, but it won't look pretty and green. It takes a lot of dryness to truly kill off either zoysia or St. Augustine.
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It's not the grass I'm concerned about. Certain shrubs and other flowering plants are much less resistant to drought. Our landscape service suggests 3/4 in of water per zone for the duration of the restrictions. That equates to 45min+ per zone. I have to question the math on this in that normally we set zones for 15-20 min three times a week and vegetation does just fine. Now one time perweek to equal 3/4in of rain is clearly more water usage than the lesser amt 3X/wk. If it's a question of not enough volume of water in the piping system to handle all homes doing 3X/wk then the restriction makes sense, but as for total usage it just doesn't equate. I have asked for further clarification but none coming. It's one thing to risk losing $1000's of dollars of vegetation if what we have to do makes sense. But if the math suggests otherwise, we the homeowners lose. With the expected rains that we are now getting almost daily, who is monitoring the situation to perhaps lift this restriction?